Samuel James Gilbert was born at 28 Walker Street, Tranmere, near Birkenhead on 21 February 1892. He was the seventh of nine children born to Samuel James Gilbert (1855-1941) and his wife Sarah Ann Jones (1856-1943), who married at St Mary, Birkenhead on 15 May 1882.
Sarah Gilbert registered her son's birth on 2 April. Since the institution of civil registration in 1837, it has been the law of England and Wales that a birth must be registered within 42 days. Sarah waited 41 days thus avoiding a fine for failure to meet the legal requirement.
Of Sam Gilbert's siblings only three were alive at the time of his birth: The eldest Gilbert siblings, Ellen May (1883-1974), (known as "Nelly"), Florence Sophia (1884-1948), and Minnie (1890-1962). Two sisters and a brother had died in early infancy. There would be another short-lived brother, Henry (1894-95), before the family concluded with the birth of Dorothy who was known as "Dolly" (1898-1983). In childhood, Sam was closest to Minnie.
Samuel James and Sarah Ann Gilbert worked to give their five surviving children a happy life despite having limited financial resources. Every year the children and young adults of the family looked forward to travelling by omnibus to Moreton, a village on the Irish Sea coastline of Wirral, where they would enjoy a whole day's holiday. It was a journey of about six and a half miles from Tranmere but the passage of the cumbersome vehicle through what was then small villages and open countryside would have felt like a much longer voyage to the sands, no doubt.
Sam found employment labouring at Cammell Laird shipyard but this work neither suited his physique or personality. He was a dapper young man who excelled at dancing be it a classical waltz or contemporary tap.
World War I would take Sam into the Royal Naval Reserve in which he served an assistant steward.
Sam returned to his work at Cammell Laird following the war. However, when the census of 1921 enumerated him at 12 Greenway Road, Tranmere, he was unemployed. The household schedule listed Sam's parents, his sister, Nelly, her daughter May, his sisters, Dolly and Florence and the latter's husband, Richard Isherwood. Of the eight persons recorded in the schedule only Dick Isherwood was in paid work. The unemployment rate in May 1921 was 23.4 %. The previous year had seen the passing of The Unemployment Insurance Act 1920. Funded in part by weekly contributions from both employers and employed, it provided weekly payments of 15 shillings for unemployed men and 12 shillings for unemployed women for up to 15 weeks duration. As unemployment rose, The Unemployment Insurance Act 1921, made provision for the payment of benefit for 16 weeks in the period between 3 March and 2 November, 1921. The official precedent followed was that an applicant should be able to show that he or she had been in insurable employment for 20 weeks during 1921. The earliest date at which the rights to benefit under the Act could have been exhausted was 22 June.
Sam found a new line of work as a chauffeur in the Wirral seaside town of Hoylake where Nelly gained employment as a cook. It was here that he met Edith Mary Poole (d. 1961), an Irish woman aged 43 years, six years his senior. Edith's brother, James, had migrated to Canada some years earlier and, perhaps, Sam and Edith saw marriage as a means to a better life in North America. Their wedding took place at the English Presbyterian Church in Hoylake on 15 August 1928. It appears to have been a hurried arrangement with no family members as witnesses.
Two days after their wedding, Sam and Edith boarded the "Montcalm" at Liverpool and sailed for Quebec, Canada. From there, Sam and Edith set up home in Toronto. Less than a year later, Sam facilitated the migration of his youngest sibling, Dolly. On 24 May 1929, at age 31 years, she sailed for Quebec on board the Cunard Line's "Andania", joining Sam and Edith at their Toronto home. She would become the second wife of Thomas Burnley White Bearhope, a Scottish-born T.C.C. Operator who had migrated to Canada in 1922.
Sam drove taxis in Toronto until 1930 when he acquired a clerical post with Imperial Oil Limited, a major employer in the city. He remained with the firm until his retirement in 1958, probably enjoying better job security than if he had remained in England. He clearly had no regrets about migrating to Canada. When the federal Parliament enacted the Canadian Citizenship Act in 1946 in created a fully independent Canadian citizenship, separate from British law and status as British subjects. Sam was swift to become a Canadian, whilst Dolly remained British.
Edith died in 1961. The marriage had been without issue.
Between 1963 and 1965, Sam relocated to the Bathurst Street property adjacent to that of his sister Dolly. He resumed work as taxi-driver.
In June of 1969, Sam moved into Dolly's apartment where he remained until admitted to Branson Hospital in the Toronto borough of North York.
It was at Branson Hospital that Sam died, aged 77 years, on 23 November 1969. Dolly completed the legal form necessary for the registration of death the same day.
Samuel James Gilbert was buried with his late wife, Edith, at Prospect Cemetery, Toronto on 26 November 1969.
Sarah Gilbert registered her son's birth on 2 April. Since the institution of civil registration in 1837, it has been the law of England and Wales that a birth must be registered within 42 days. Sarah waited 41 days thus avoiding a fine for failure to meet the legal requirement.
Of Sam Gilbert's siblings only three were alive at the time of his birth: The eldest Gilbert siblings, Ellen May (1883-1974), (known as "Nelly"), Florence Sophia (1884-1948), and Minnie (1890-1962). Two sisters and a brother had died in early infancy. There would be another short-lived brother, Henry (1894-95), before the family concluded with the birth of Dorothy who was known as "Dolly" (1898-1983). In childhood, Sam was closest to Minnie.
Samuel James and Sarah Ann Gilbert worked to give their five surviving children a happy life despite having limited financial resources. Every year the children and young adults of the family looked forward to travelling by omnibus to Moreton, a village on the Irish Sea coastline of Wirral, where they would enjoy a whole day's holiday. It was a journey of about six and a half miles from Tranmere but the passage of the cumbersome vehicle through what was then small villages and open countryside would have felt like a much longer voyage to the sands, no doubt.
Sam found employment labouring at Cammell Laird shipyard but this work neither suited his physique or personality. He was a dapper young man who excelled at dancing be it a classical waltz or contemporary tap.
World War I would take Sam into the Royal Naval Reserve in which he served an assistant steward.
Sam returned to his work at Cammell Laird following the war. However, when the census of 1921 enumerated him at 12 Greenway Road, Tranmere, he was unemployed. The household schedule listed Sam's parents, his sister, Nelly, her daughter May, his sisters, Dolly and Florence and the latter's husband, Richard Isherwood. Of the eight persons recorded in the schedule only Dick Isherwood was in paid work. The unemployment rate in May 1921 was 23.4 %. The previous year had seen the passing of The Unemployment Insurance Act 1920. Funded in part by weekly contributions from both employers and employed, it provided weekly payments of 15 shillings for unemployed men and 12 shillings for unemployed women for up to 15 weeks duration. As unemployment rose, The Unemployment Insurance Act 1921, made provision for the payment of benefit for 16 weeks in the period between 3 March and 2 November, 1921. The official precedent followed was that an applicant should be able to show that he or she had been in insurable employment for 20 weeks during 1921. The earliest date at which the rights to benefit under the Act could have been exhausted was 22 June.
Sam found a new line of work as a chauffeur in the Wirral seaside town of Hoylake where Nelly gained employment as a cook. It was here that he met Edith Mary Poole (d. 1961), an Irish woman aged 43 years, six years his senior. Edith's brother, James, had migrated to Canada some years earlier and, perhaps, Sam and Edith saw marriage as a means to a better life in North America. Their wedding took place at the English Presbyterian Church in Hoylake on 15 August 1928. It appears to have been a hurried arrangement with no family members as witnesses.
Two days after their wedding, Sam and Edith boarded the "Montcalm" at Liverpool and sailed for Quebec, Canada. From there, Sam and Edith set up home in Toronto. Less than a year later, Sam facilitated the migration of his youngest sibling, Dolly. On 24 May 1929, at age 31 years, she sailed for Quebec on board the Cunard Line's "Andania", joining Sam and Edith at their Toronto home. She would become the second wife of Thomas Burnley White Bearhope, a Scottish-born T.C.C. Operator who had migrated to Canada in 1922.
Sam drove taxis in Toronto until 1930 when he acquired a clerical post with Imperial Oil Limited, a major employer in the city. He remained with the firm until his retirement in 1958, probably enjoying better job security than if he had remained in England. He clearly had no regrets about migrating to Canada. When the federal Parliament enacted the Canadian Citizenship Act in 1946 in created a fully independent Canadian citizenship, separate from British law and status as British subjects. Sam was swift to become a Canadian, whilst Dolly remained British.
Edith died in 1961. The marriage had been without issue.
Between 1963 and 1965, Sam relocated to the Bathurst Street property adjacent to that of his sister Dolly. He resumed work as taxi-driver.
In June of 1969, Sam moved into Dolly's apartment where he remained until admitted to Branson Hospital in the Toronto borough of North York.
It was at Branson Hospital that Sam died, aged 77 years, on 23 November 1969. Dolly completed the legal form necessary for the registration of death the same day.
Samuel James Gilbert was buried with his late wife, Edith, at Prospect Cemetery, Toronto on 26 November 1969.
Samuel James Gilbert was born at 28 Walker Street, Tranmere, near Birkenhead on 21 February 1892. He was the seventh of nine children born to Samuel James Gilbert (1855-1941) and his wife Sarah Ann Jones (1856-1943), who married at St Mary, Birkenhead on 15 May 1882.
Sarah Gilbert registered her son's birth on 2 April. Since the institution of civil registration in 1837, it has been the law of England and Wales that a birth must be registered within 42 days. Sarah waited 41 days thus avoiding a fine for failure to meet the legal requirement.
Of Sam Gilbert's siblings only three were alive at the time of his birth: The eldest Gilbert siblings, Ellen May (1883-1974), (known as "Nelly"), Florence Sophia (1884-1948), and Minnie (1890-1962). Two sisters and a brother had died in early infancy. There would be another short-lived brother, Henry (1894-95), before the family concluded with the birth of Dorothy who was known as "Dolly" (1898-1983). In childhood, Sam was closest to Minnie.
Samuel James and Sarah Ann Gilbert worked to give their five surviving children a happy life despite having limited financial resources. Every year the children and young adults of the family looked forward to travelling by omnibus to Moreton, a village on the Irish Sea coastline of Wirral, where they would enjoy a whole day's holiday. It was a journey of about six and a half miles from Tranmere but the passage of the cumbersome vehicle through what was then small villages and open countryside would have felt like a much longer voyage to the sands, no doubt.
Sam found employment labouring at Cammell Laird shipyard but this work neither suited his physique or personality. He was a dapper young man who excelled at dancing be it a classical waltz or contemporary tap.
World War I would take Sam into the Royal Naval Reserve in which he served an assistant steward.
Sam returned to his work at Cammell Laird following the war. However, when the census of 1921 enumerated him at 12 Greenway Road, Tranmere, he was unemployed. The household schedule listed Sam's parents, his sister, Nelly, her daughter May, his sisters, Dolly and Florence and the latter's husband, Richard Isherwood. Of the eight persons recorded in the schedule only Dick Isherwood was in paid work. The unemployment rate in May 1921 was 23.4 %. The previous year had seen the passing of The Unemployment Insurance Act 1920. Funded in part by weekly contributions from both employers and employed, it provided weekly payments of 15 shillings for unemployed men and 12 shillings for unemployed women for up to 15 weeks duration. As unemployment rose, The Unemployment Insurance Act 1921, made provision for the payment of benefit for 16 weeks in the period between 3 March and 2 November, 1921. The official precedent followed was that an applicant should be able to show that he or she had been in insurable employment for 20 weeks during 1921. The earliest date at which the rights to benefit under the Act could have been exhausted was 22 June.
Sam found a new line of work as a chauffeur in the Wirral seaside town of Hoylake where Nelly gained employment as a cook. It was here that he met Edith Mary Poole (d. 1961), an Irish woman aged 43 years, six years his senior. Edith's brother, James, had migrated to Canada some years earlier and, perhaps, Sam and Edith saw marriage as a means to a better life in North America. Their wedding took place at the English Presbyterian Church in Hoylake on 15 August 1928. It appears to have been a hurried arrangement with no family members as witnesses.
Two days after their wedding, Sam and Edith boarded the "Montcalm" at Liverpool and sailed for Quebec, Canada. From there, Sam and Edith set up home in Toronto. Less than a year later, Sam facilitated the migration of his youngest sibling, Dolly. On 24 May 1929, at age 31 years, she sailed for Quebec on board the Cunard Line's "Andania", joining Sam and Edith at their Toronto home. She would become the second wife of Thomas Burnley White Bearhope, a Scottish-born T.C.C. Operator who had migrated to Canada in 1922.
Sam drove taxis in Toronto until 1930 when he acquired a clerical post with Imperial Oil Limited, a major employer in the city. He remained with the firm until his retirement in 1958, probably enjoying better job security than if he had remained in England. He clearly had no regrets about migrating to Canada. When the federal Parliament enacted the Canadian Citizenship Act in 1946 in created a fully independent Canadian citizenship, separate from British law and status as British subjects. Sam was swift to become a Canadian, whilst Dolly remained British.
Edith died in 1961. The marriage had been without issue.
Between 1963 and 1965, Sam relocated to the Bathurst Street property adjacent to that of his sister Dolly. He resumed work as taxi-driver.
In June of 1969, Sam moved into Dolly's apartment where he remained until admitted to Branson Hospital in the Toronto borough of North York.
It was at Branson Hospital that Sam died, aged 77 years, on 23 November 1969. Dolly completed the legal form necessary for the registration of death the same day.
Samuel James Gilbert was buried with his late wife, Edith, at Prospect Cemetery, Toronto on 26 November 1969.
Sarah Gilbert registered her son's birth on 2 April. Since the institution of civil registration in 1837, it has been the law of England and Wales that a birth must be registered within 42 days. Sarah waited 41 days thus avoiding a fine for failure to meet the legal requirement.
Of Sam Gilbert's siblings only three were alive at the time of his birth: The eldest Gilbert siblings, Ellen May (1883-1974), (known as "Nelly"), Florence Sophia (1884-1948), and Minnie (1890-1962). Two sisters and a brother had died in early infancy. There would be another short-lived brother, Henry (1894-95), before the family concluded with the birth of Dorothy who was known as "Dolly" (1898-1983). In childhood, Sam was closest to Minnie.
Samuel James and Sarah Ann Gilbert worked to give their five surviving children a happy life despite having limited financial resources. Every year the children and young adults of the family looked forward to travelling by omnibus to Moreton, a village on the Irish Sea coastline of Wirral, where they would enjoy a whole day's holiday. It was a journey of about six and a half miles from Tranmere but the passage of the cumbersome vehicle through what was then small villages and open countryside would have felt like a much longer voyage to the sands, no doubt.
Sam found employment labouring at Cammell Laird shipyard but this work neither suited his physique or personality. He was a dapper young man who excelled at dancing be it a classical waltz or contemporary tap.
World War I would take Sam into the Royal Naval Reserve in which he served an assistant steward.
Sam returned to his work at Cammell Laird following the war. However, when the census of 1921 enumerated him at 12 Greenway Road, Tranmere, he was unemployed. The household schedule listed Sam's parents, his sister, Nelly, her daughter May, his sisters, Dolly and Florence and the latter's husband, Richard Isherwood. Of the eight persons recorded in the schedule only Dick Isherwood was in paid work. The unemployment rate in May 1921 was 23.4 %. The previous year had seen the passing of The Unemployment Insurance Act 1920. Funded in part by weekly contributions from both employers and employed, it provided weekly payments of 15 shillings for unemployed men and 12 shillings for unemployed women for up to 15 weeks duration. As unemployment rose, The Unemployment Insurance Act 1921, made provision for the payment of benefit for 16 weeks in the period between 3 March and 2 November, 1921. The official precedent followed was that an applicant should be able to show that he or she had been in insurable employment for 20 weeks during 1921. The earliest date at which the rights to benefit under the Act could have been exhausted was 22 June.
Sam found a new line of work as a chauffeur in the Wirral seaside town of Hoylake where Nelly gained employment as a cook. It was here that he met Edith Mary Poole (d. 1961), an Irish woman aged 43 years, six years his senior. Edith's brother, James, had migrated to Canada some years earlier and, perhaps, Sam and Edith saw marriage as a means to a better life in North America. Their wedding took place at the English Presbyterian Church in Hoylake on 15 August 1928. It appears to have been a hurried arrangement with no family members as witnesses.
Two days after their wedding, Sam and Edith boarded the "Montcalm" at Liverpool and sailed for Quebec, Canada. From there, Sam and Edith set up home in Toronto. Less than a year later, Sam facilitated the migration of his youngest sibling, Dolly. On 24 May 1929, at age 31 years, she sailed for Quebec on board the Cunard Line's "Andania", joining Sam and Edith at their Toronto home. She would become the second wife of Thomas Burnley White Bearhope, a Scottish-born T.C.C. Operator who had migrated to Canada in 1922.
Sam drove taxis in Toronto until 1930 when he acquired a clerical post with Imperial Oil Limited, a major employer in the city. He remained with the firm until his retirement in 1958, probably enjoying better job security than if he had remained in England. He clearly had no regrets about migrating to Canada. When the federal Parliament enacted the Canadian Citizenship Act in 1946 in created a fully independent Canadian citizenship, separate from British law and status as British subjects. Sam was swift to become a Canadian, whilst Dolly remained British.
Edith died in 1961. The marriage had been without issue.
Between 1963 and 1965, Sam relocated to the Bathurst Street property adjacent to that of his sister Dolly. He resumed work as taxi-driver.
In June of 1969, Sam moved into Dolly's apartment where he remained until admitted to Branson Hospital in the Toronto borough of North York.
It was at Branson Hospital that Sam died, aged 77 years, on 23 November 1969. Dolly completed the legal form necessary for the registration of death the same day.
Samuel James Gilbert was buried with his late wife, Edith, at Prospect Cemetery, Toronto on 26 November 1969.
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